Socialtext
Michael Larsen is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with Socialtext/PeopleFluent. Over the past two decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications.
Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, helped start and facilitate the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, is a former Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and former Board Member and President of AST.
Michael writes the TESTHEAD blog and can be found on Twitter at @mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkltesthead.
Papers/Presentations
- The Dos and Don’t of Accessibility - Michael Larsen, 2021 Technical Presentation, Paper, Presentation
- Workshop: Add Some Accessibility to Your Day - Michael Larsen leads this PNSQC 2020 workshop on how to get started integrating accessibility tools and testing into your site development life cycle.
- Panel Discussion moderated by Michael Larsen & Bill Opsal – The Release Day Crime Scene - Michael Larsen, Bill Opsal, Abstract
- Is This Testable? A Personal Journey to Learn How to Ask Better Questions From My Applications and Engineering Team - Michael Larsen, 2019 Technical Presentation, Abstract, Paper, Slides
- WS07: Building a Testing Framework from Scratch - Michael Larsen, 2018 Workshop, Abstract
- Future Proofing Your Software: Design Inclusively - Michael Larsen, 2018 Invited, Abstract, Paper, Slides, Video
- Senses Working Overtime: Improving Software Quality Through Accessibility and Inclusive Design - Michael Larsen, 2017 Technical Presentation, Abstract, Paper, Slides, Video.
- Delivering Quality One Weekend at a Time: Lessons Learned from Weekend Testing - Michael Larsen, 2011 Technical Paper, Abstract, Paper
- Get the Balance Right: Acceptance Test Driven Development, GUI Automation and Exploratory Testing - Michael Larsen, 2012 Technical Paper, Abstract, Paper
